Elon Musk

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Hagiography.  He did well at tesla buy buying into a good product, nepo rolling his cousins solar business into it, then going hat in hand to the fed like a common corporate welfare queen.  The same was true of spacex.  He's the immigrant sucking up all the taxpayers money.  He'll destroy the gov for the same reason he destroyed his cybertrucks window - he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing.

You vastly underestimate him. He certainly DOES know what the fuck he is doing. Do the research.

The odds stacked against him with Tesla and SpaceX were ridiculous. He took on the multi-$billion automotive industry with less than $100 million and forced a change in the industry. EVs are well past the tipping point now. Against the wishes of the legacy auto manufacturers and even the oil companies, combustion engine cars are dead. The writing is on the wall. The future is electric.

He achieved practical, economical, reusable rockets when most engineers in the business insisted that that was flat-out impossible. Falcon 9 has now launched and recovered nearly 400 boosters and still, nobody else has a reusable system 15 years later. And now he is well on his way to achieving a reusable rocket system in starship that will reduce launch costs/kilogram by an order of magnitude > Falcon 9.

Musk is VERY capable. If he directs his abilities against the common good as he now seems hell-bent to do, he had BETTER be taken seriously and opposed to the max.